Video: Hey, who’s up for six minutes of “teabagger” jokes on MSNBC?

posted at 10:00 pm on November 17, 2009 by Allahpundit

No, just kidding. There’s only two minutes or so of actual jokes. The other four-plus minutes are devoted to Olby taking credit for mainstreaming a sexual euphemism to degrade his political opponents. Good work; it’s important to have goals, especially when you’re the Edward R. Murrow of your generation.

For essential context on this delicate point, I refer you to John Simpson’s old but gold analysis at Big Hollywood of who’s really ‘bagging whom these days. Exit quotation from Matt Welch, addressing the meme du jour: “Generally speaking, when key evidence is ‘unspoken,’ and in fact imagined by the prosecution, it’s a good bet that the overall case is weak.”

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Everyone on the right has got it all wrong. Understandably, they have got it wrong — but still ALL WRONG. We need to launch: OPERATION FLIP THE SCRIPT.

The left does not give the phrase “teabagger” power, except as minor weak humor. YOU give the phrase power. Every time you get MAD. Everytime you get UPSET. Everytime you feel that feeling in the pit of your GUT — just like I do.

But make no mistake — you CANNOT argue with them. Like all taunts and ridicule, that only makes it worse. You can’t even ignore it, because it’s just too catchy.

WE HAVE GOT TO CO-OPT IT.

Let me repeat: WE HAVE GOT TO CO-OPT IT.

Don’t get mad at them — PRETEND TO JOIN IN. TAKE IT TO THE FURTHERST LIMITS — **AND BEYOND**. Destroy it by MOCKING THE MOCKERY.

How do you do that, do you say?

Well, you’re not going to like the answer at first blush. But believe me, I’ve been doing it on chatboards for 6 weeks, and it works EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Every single time.

When someone uses the phrase “teabagger,” I just play right back at them.

Outrageously.

Flamboyantly.

IN THE ONE WAY — THE ONE WAY — THEY NEVER EXPECT.

Simply put, I type words on to the scren as if I’m a flaming homosexual.

Yes, that’s right.

I type words on to the screen as if I am a flaming homosexual.

Example:

“OOOOOH ‘BLUESTATE4EVR.’ I love it when you say things like ‘teabagger.’ It gets me so hot! Squeal! Are you out, or still closeted? I’m gay and proud! Don’t be shy, come out of the closet! Come over here and give me a big kiss! Let’s turn this in to one big teabag party, SWEETIE! XOXO”

And I keep it up.

And I keep it up.

And I keep it up.

And let me tell you, I don’t have to keep it up long. It doesn’t just take the wind out of their sales — it DESTROYS them.

I already predicted — lots of you may object, at first blush. But think about it. You really THINK about it. THINK about the implications. Think about WHY THIS WORKS.

This is psychological warfare, and in warfare, there are no holds barred.

I’M STRONG ENOUGH TO DESTROY THE ENEMY WITH THE ONE WEAPON THEY DO NOT EXPECT, AND CANNOT COUNTER.

I don’t get mad about it. At first, I actually laughed at some of it, I can laugh even when I’m the butt of a joke. It was unprofessional, but hey, look at who we’re talking about here. But after a while, 1. you’re ‘professionals’. 2. Even good jokes go bad, if used enough. 3. Methinks Queef dost protesteth too much, kind of a ‘teabaggaphobia’ kind of thing.

I am guessing Olby does not play first-person shooters on PC or game consoles, because he would know that “teabagging” is performed by the victor on a freshly, helpless vanquished foe. So maybe we should start coopting the phrase in this context.

I can envision an interview by a protestor with the phrase, “The gonads of freedom will soon be draped upon the forehead of Obama and his Democrats.” 2012 campaign slogan right there.

Well, Lenny Bruce had his politically-correct martyrdom; George Carlin had his “seven deadly words;” Olby’s entitled to his “one sort of gross and stupid innuendo.”
notropis on November 17, 2009 at 10:09 PM

Here’s the thing-I dont care if I am called a teabagger. I just dont like it being labeled on so many of the elderly people who go out to stand up for the country who have no idea it is a derrogatory term. That is just low. Plus, Olby and Co., if I am the teabagger, that makes you the “teabagee” and that means my metaphorical balls are slapping you in the forehead and nose. A lovely mental picture.

I could care less what the mental midgets call me. It does get tiring to hear their repertoire of rhetoric, full of juvenile sexual innuendo – but that’s all they’ve got. I prefer smiling and “walking away”

In a way what voxpopuli suggested will work in some circumstances, much like the playground bully (and that’s all these people are) once they’re shoved back they lose their power to bully you. But it is equally empowering to give no reaction – are you not frustrated when ignored? If you can bear it, ignore it, once they figure out they’re no longer getting an angry response, they’ll stop giggling and become silent. What else do they have? I mean good grief…. their idol, the child who wants to be king, has the attitude, “I won, you didn’t”

Simply put, I type words on to the scren as if I’m a flaming homosexual.

Yes, that’s right.

I type words on to the screen as if I am a flaming homosexual.

voxpopuli on November 18, 2009 at 12:02 AM

This is a wonderful idea. Please, everyone do this. Then they won’t make fun of you anymore!

My idea was that you could be the adults and ignore their lame insults like I ignore most of the idiots here when they make their lame insults, but the “going on liberal sites and pretending to be a homosexual” thing is pure gold, and will definitely not backfire.

Teabag Olbergoebbels and Richard “Teabagee” Wolfe. Two poster boys for teabagging if there ever were two. Throw in Olbergoebbels’ “good buddy” Michael Musto and Andrew Sullivan and they could form a new musical group, “The Blueboys”. Their first hit could be from personal experience, “Circle Jerk”, followed with the “B” side, “Gimme another Pearl Necklace”. I sometimes wonder if Olbergoebbels has an inkling to how stupid and uncool he really is. And yes, he does look completely constipated everytime he’s on air. It’s a mental constipation combined with his buttplug with Obama’s face on it. Katy Tur, his live in “girlfriend” who at 24 is half his age is a great cover for this closet queen. When “Teabag” Olbergoebbels almost wept when California went against gay marriage I knew something was amiss. Come on Olbergoebbels, you can come out of the closet. Speaking of which, SouthPark really does need to do a whole episode on Olbergoebbels. He’s comedy rich doncha know?

Hey Olby, you know where to put a teabag, where the sun don’t shine. Maybe Butch Maddow can help you insert it. Throw some gerbil food in there as well so your “pets” don’t starve.

What would be an interesting comparison is to research some of the British jokes towards the colonials in the 1700s. Olby needs a powdered wig while he sits back and cracks wise on the average American who is tired of a ruling class gone wild.

Olby is in all-out panic mode over his ratings. What we are now witnessing is his try at shock TV. Hoping to scrape up a few more immature young men who find this talk to be hilarious. Of course, these would be immature young men from the gay community.

I responded to a teabagger thread once by telling the liberal that I was sorry he was a homophobe and hated gays. After his steam vent blew, I then had to explain to him using small words that comparing people who disagree with Obama to the sodomites from Deliverance was not a way to win friends or influence people.

I refuse to watch Olbydork, and I thank AP for using his photo because it allows me to see that this thread is about an otherwise foolish little man that I don’t even watch the NFL on NBC Pre-game show to avoid!

But in a genuinely curious turn of events, Obama’s race—after failing to provoke any significant appeals to white fear or resentment during the long 2008 campaign—has now become a central factor in the eyes of people frustrated by the volume and effectiveness of the opposition.

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Mr. Welch is right on-target with this observation. With no overt display of racism, otherwise smart-sounding pundits are desperate to find base and bigoted motivations for conservative opposition. What the liberal opinion writers don’t find, they make up.
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It’s obvious that they are wildly thrashing in the throes of self-denial about Barack Obama, who succeeded in winning the office he now holds by media malfeasance, personal popularity, white guilt and discontent with President Bush.
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Mr. Welch exposes well empty accusations against an empty suit.